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  1. @Hikari -- Did you do anything different when you posted the above? I use the Light theme, and see the text as much fainter (and a bit smaller) than in earlier posts on this thread (also fainter than in your earlier posts elsewhere). Added: ... but this post turned out perfectly normal. P.S.: In case anyone is interested in reading more of the thread that your lengthy quote came from, it's here.
  2. How true! And that's what keeps fiction writers from running out of plots. I suspect he'd do fairly well, yes -- but I doubt he'd win 100% of the time. There's simply too much random chance involved in sports -- which way a ball bounces, whether players get injured, whether the referee happens to notice an infraction of the rules, etc. Anyhow, hello, Diana91, and welcome to Sherlock Forum!
  3. When the phone rang this morning, I assumed it was another of those, but said "hello" anyhow, just in case -- and it was an actual real-live woman from the phone company, wanting more information on what's been happening. When I explained, she said, "Oh, we call those 'ghost calls' -- sometimes the equipment decides to pretend there's a call." They're sending a technician out tomorrow -- though those oddball problems can be hard as the dickens to pin down, so I wish them luck. Also, the problem may have evaporated already, considering that we *knock on wood* haven't gotten any "ghost calls" since just one on Saturday morning.
  4. Hmm, hadn't thought of that possibility. Do stalkers normally operate only during business hours, though? After a busy week, we haven't heard from ours since yesterday (Saturday) morning. And I can't imagine why anyone would stalk either of us. I've heard that some "nobody there" phone calls are simply checking to see if the number currently belongs to anyone, but you'd think that once or twice would be sufficient to answer that question! We do have such a phone, but we didn't realize that feature was still working (the display is *very* tiny) till Alex had a close look at it just now. So yes, we'll give that a try, assuming that the calls resume. The results may be meaningless, though, because A] it's *very* easy for a caller to avoid sending their number, and B] with the right equipment it's a piece of cake for them to spoof their number.
  5. Oh, right, Pi Day would be the day before the Ides of March -- which in turn is only two days before today -- Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody! Is there a way to link to those?
  6. Back on topic -- there's a bit more info online now. Here's the official synopsis (from this article) -- The mystery thriller series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER puts Sherlock Holmes (David Thewlis) out of his comfort zone, mysteriously unable to investigate a sinister case without risking the lives of his closest friends. Enter: young American Amelia (Blu Hunt, “The Originals,” “The New Mutants”). After her mother’s mysterious murder, she learns her missing father may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder, and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter. That same article also mentions another potential Holmes-universe program, Watson (see this thread).
  7. The people who brought you Elementary have a new current-day Holmes-universe series in the works, namely Watson, wherein Holmes has died (murdered by Moriarty), and Watson has returned to medical practice. Watson is played by Morris Chestnut, a middle-aged black American actor. I have no idea whether his Watson is supposed to be American or British (likewise the show's Moriarty), but these producers did a good detective series (albeit not your usual Holmes) with Watson as an Asian-American woman, so I'll be interested to see how this one turns out. Here's how the Hollywood Reporter describes the series (in this article) -- . . . a medical show in which Watson resumes his career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders. Moriarty (who killed Holmes) will be a prominent character in the series that CBS says features a “modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.” Hopefully this series will run on CBS broadcast stations (rather than on streaming). I've never seen Chestnut in anything (because I rarely watch anything new these days), but judging by the photos I've seen and what little I've read about him, he could play a good, solid down-to-earth Watson. If he and the scripts capture the spirit of the canonical Watson, I'll be happy to watch -- and even if they don't, it could still be an interesting show. (Not sure why they've included Moriarty, though -- other than everybody else does.) In case you didn't see the news, there's also a new Holmes series coming on the CW network (see this thread).
  8. A week or two ago, we started getting weird phone calls -- at least I guess they were phone calls. The landline would ring, and I'd pick it up and say hello, and -- nothing. It sounded like the nearly-silent background of a regular phone call, but nobody said anything. It started out just once every day or two, then every day, then more than once a day, sometimes a couple times just a few minutes apart. I finally called the phone company yesterday (Friday), and they said they'd send someone out on Monday to see if maybe it's some sort of equipment malfunction. I had already tried calling the landline from my cell phone, though, and that worked fine, so it's apparently not some legitimate caller having trouble getting through. Also, the calls start around mid-morning and stop in late afternoon, so it's apparently not caused by some phone-company equipment going haywire. Which pretty much leaves somebody (or somebody's automated equipment) calling us but not saying anything as the only explanation. Could conceivably be one of those don't-put-an-agent-on-the-call-till-someone-answers kinda things, but those typically go *bleep* very quickly and an actual human comes on almost immediately (though I've started hanging up as soon as I hear that distinctive *bleep*). These calls aren't like that. The first few times I stayed on plenty long enough for someone to start talking, if they were going to. Anybody got any other guesses?
  9. And as a followup to our pizza discussion: Happy Pi Day! (March 14 = 3.14, sort of, approximately -- at least in the U.S.)
  10. Here's a Star Trek trivia question: Which of the original series' regular actors has/had the same middle name as Humphrey Bogart? If you'd like a dead giveaway sort of a clue, see the beginning of Bogart's Wikipedia page. Otherwise, see below for a slightly more subtle clue. I'll scroll down a ways first, just in case your internet service is a little on the slow side like mine, so that the contents of a spoiler box are briefly visible as it loads. Clue:
  11. Very sad indeed, and apparently quite unexpected, according to Metro and other sources. Even though that article leads with a picture of her famous son, there's a lovely photo of Nora Boyle Scott further down.
  12. Thank you, those photos come right up now. And thanks for the description of your book's interior. I think you're right -- or at least if it is a copy of Ariane's transcripts, it's been heavily amended. The transcripts that I've seen for other TV shows vary quite a lot in the amount of description included -- some don't even mention who says what, just the dialog (possibly done using speech-recognition software) -- so the same could be true of Sherlock transcripts (if there are any others -- but I haven't seen any). Unfortunately the BBC link in that thread now leads to a "404 Page not found" error. And the "alternative source" (http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Sherlock/) mentioned later in the same post of that thread is currently timing out for me, though it might be worth checking later, to see if it's recovered. Unfortunately, I suspect you're right.
  13. I can't get that link to load, but I'm on my cellphone right now -- will try on my computer tomorrow. But I don't recall ever seeing such a book, or even hearing about it. The closest thing I can think of would be print-outs of transcripts from Ariane Devere's website -- will post a link to that tomorrow, if nobody beats me to it. Anyhow, welcome to Sherlock Forum, outlaw! And thanks for posting such an intriguing question. Looks like we have a mystery to solve!
  14. The "join" was in the usual upper right-hand corner, not a pop-up. But in the moment it took me to decide I could probably ignore it for the time being, the "privacy" pop-up had blocked any further activity. I had a quick look at my Firefox options, but don't think I found the two check-boxes that you mentioned. No big deal, though -- I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. Besides, every time I get my settings just the way I want them, that particular website or whatever gets a makeover a few months later and I lose everything anyhow.
  15. You've taught me a new acronym: "F*** Around and Find Out.". Yup, pretty much!
  16. Once when I was at a petting zoo, there was a young boy who kept pestering the llama. His mother (?) and aunt (?) kept telling him to stop, but he went right on pestering the llama. Finally the llama decided it'd had enough and basically hawked a loogie at the kid -- though based on some reading I've done since, llamas don't simply spit or even hawk, they can actually expel the contents of their first stomach as well, so it's pretty gross, and slimy, and stinky. As I recall, there was enough of it to do a good job on the little boy's head and get a fair start on his shirt. The kid started to bawl, and the two women laughed their heads off. And the llama wasn't pestered any further.
  17. Thanks, Martina. Right about the time I decided that I probably don't need to "join" in order to look around, they hit me with a cookie ultimatum (AKA "privacy notice") that seems to have no work-around. So I clicked your link again, and found the search function (which doesn't load till almost everything else is up) and was able to (nearly) complete one search before the ultimatum cut me off again. Still haven't found a way to get an alphabetical list of what's on (for example) Netflix, but somehow doubt that I'd be allowed to finish reading it anyhow! I don't generally consent to cookies right away except for sites (such as this forum) where they're likely to be helpful to me. Otherwise I try to work around the "request" (even if that means scrolling the actual content through a one-inch window) till I can determine whether the site has any utility for me -- and most don't.
  18. P.S.: I've already mentioned MovieChat, which started with content from the old IMDb talk pages, saved by one member before IMDb shut them down. Just happened to come across this comment from 3 years ago in the MTM Show discussion: ... the comments on IMDB from 5 years ago are so much more interesting, civil and movie/character oriented than since MovieChat has taken it over. Mind you, MovieChat is moderated, and IMDb was not. So either TrentnQuarantino is misremembering and/or the past 8 years or so really have seen a shift toward less actual conversation.
  19. OK, I see your point. I don't recall that FB was actually advertised as a forum substitute, but I've heard some people recommend it as such -- apparently meaning that those people saw no purpose for forums other than posting news. So FB was at least an unintentional enabler. But I don't think it would have been able to do that if enough people had wanted discussion forums. So maybe the question is, did forums used to be popular because people in general were more into actual conversations back then, or merely because there were fewer people online and those few tended to be more conversational?
  20. I see what you mean, but am not sure whether FB is a cause or an effect. It's a good platform for posting news, but not really designed for conversations. That seems to be a recent blight on society in general -- I'm right, so you're wrong. People have always tended to hang out mostly with people they feel comfortable with, of course, but there wasn't all this polarization and demonization that I started noticing around 2000. Mercifully, though, there seems to be a hint here and there of a return to the concept that people of good will can simply disagree -- and that it's interesting and even useful to compare ideas.
  21. Odd -- all I did was go to Google and type in Sherlock forum Admittedly that didn't get me anywhere in February of 2012, but fortunately I tried again that April, when there actually was such a website. I see that you didn't join till 2015, though, by which time the waters may have been muddied considerably!
  22. I know very little about Dr. Who other than the Tom Baker and Peter Davison eras, so I had to look this up. Judging by conversations such as this one (on Reddit), Chibnall (a recent showrunner) gets mixed reviews from the fans, something like Steven Moffat -- but that seems to be the standard to any public figure. Hopefully you're not talking about anything truly hostile or slanderous, but that does, alas, seem to be occasionally par for the course.
  23. Oh, I like some of them OK. I like lots of shows that aren't Star Trek!
  24. OK, now I see what you mean -- like I don't consider anything after Next Generation to be real Star Trek (more like soap operas -- complete with evil twins! -- set in the Star Trek universe). Has anyone heard what era Sherlock & Daughter is set in? Or what country?
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